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Published in final edited form as: J Neurolinguistics. 2002 May;15(3-5):189–207. doi: 10.1016/S0911-6044(01)00038-0

Table 1.

Complex sentence production and other data (Note: Normal data for narrative discourse condition from Thompson et al. (1995))

Language Variable	Spoken discourse	Written discourse	Normal data M (SD)
MLU	9.23		14.47 (2.20)
% Grammatical sentences	24	22	88 (09)
% Simple sentences	48	49	43 (17)
% Complex sentences	52	51	58 (17)
% Verbs with correct arguments	98	90	98 (03)
Open-class:closed-class ratio	92	93	91 (.08)
Noun:verb ratio	1.08	1.05	1.21 (.25)